How did the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, do on her endorsements? Well....

....Not bad in reality. Really great among TV commentators.

Listening to many of them Tuesday night, you'd have thought Sarah Palin was pulling political strings all over the country. They called her, (politically incorrect) "a kingmaker." As if Mitt Romney et al hadn't pretended to eat one rubber chicken dinner for any fellow GOP candidates all year long.

Speaking of winners and losers, longtime Democratic committee heavyweights Ike Skelton, James Oberstar and John Spratt went under the bus. Barney Frank held on. So did Dennis Kucinich, whose winning margins are melting every cycle, now down to 53%.

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Louisiana's Rep. Joseph Cao, Congress' first Vietnamese native and the only Republican to buy Obama's bipartisan spiel and vote for the president's healthcare measure, lost his reelection bid, thanks in part to the commercial that an ungrateful Obama did for Democratic state legislator Cedric Richmond.

And who won the election night cable news ratings race? Looks like Fox News Channel, like the Republicans, came out on top for the night.

According to Nielsen Media Research, FNC had almost 6.7 million viewers in the 8-11 prime-time slot, including almost 2.44 million in the prized 25-54 demographic. Fox News' prime-time audience was 2.5 million more than the combined audiences of Brand X and Brand Y on cable.